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Income Tax Department organises TDS Awareness Program for the benefit of Tamil Nadu State Government DDOs coming under the Pay and Accounts Officer , Chennai
The Joint Commissionerate of Income Tax, TDS Range-3, Chennai and the
Commissionerate of Treasuries and Accounts, Chennai, jointly conducted TDS Awareness Programme today  at Perasiriyar Ka Anbalagan Maligai, Chennai under the able guidance of
Shri M Murali, Commissioner of Income Tax , Chennai and Shri M Arjun Manic, IRS, Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, TDS Range-3, Chennai , for the benefit of Income Tax Deductors of Tamil Nadu State Government  coming under the Pay Accounts Officer -South, Chenani, wherein, the DDOs and their supporting staff were participated and got benefitted.
Shri Venkatesan, Assistant Pay and Accounts Officer  presided over the TDS Awareness Program and delivered special address.
Shri L Rajaraman, Income Tax Officer explained about the mechanism of tax deduction at source and tax collection at source as prescribed in the Income Tax Act,1961. In particular, he has requested the Drawing and Disbursing Officers  to deduct tax / collect tax on the appropriate payments / receipts in the prescribed rates as mentioned in the Income Tax Act,1961 while submitting the bills to the Pay and Accounts Officer, in respect of Salary, Contract expenses, etc. Special request was made that while presenting the Salary Bill to the PAO, each DDO has to estimate the taxable salary income of all of its employees, in the beginning of every FY and TDS has to be made an on average rate of Income Tax on the applicable rates prescribed in the relevant FY from the first month salary onwards.
Deductors were sensitized on the requirement of filing of quarterly
TDS /TCS statements and issue of Certificates to the Deductees / Collectees.
Shri T V Sridhar, Income Tax Officer presented a Power Point Presentation, wherein, he explained the consequences such as Interest on Late Payments/ Late Deductions, Late Filing Fees, Penalties and prosecution on Non-compliances of TDS / TCS provisions of the Income Tax Act,1961.
The DDOs were informed about the following Tax Deductor services initiatives carried out by the Chief Commissionerate of Income Tax , Chennai, and request was made to the participants to utilize the facility provided by the Income Tax Department, on requirement basis.
1. Availability of App Chatbot  called as TDS-Nanban in both the languages English and Tamil, which was launched recently for the very first time in the country, an Artificial Intelligence – powered one, which can be downloaded from  on mobile from play store / App store in both Android and ioS versions.
2. e-TDS Videos which were created in Tamil and uploaded in the official you tube channel of the Principal Chief Commissionerate of Income Tax, Tamilnadu & Puducherry region, and the same may be accessed with 
3. Release of TDS Manual in both languages English and Tamil .
4. Release of TDS pamphlets both in English and Tamil. Hard copy of English version provided to the participants .
Ms Janaki, TDS consultant presented a practical session on how to file the quarterly statements in Form No.24Q in TRACES portal. Further, she has elaborately explained the technicalities involved in reduction of TDS demand raised under TRACES portal with illustrations. She had also sensitized the tax deductors on the mechanism available in reporting portal of the Income Tax Department to ascertain the specified persons u/s 206AA/ 206CC / 206AB / 206CCA.